Leviticus 7:1-27

1“ ‘These are the regulations for the guilt offering, which is most holy:

2The guilt offering is to be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and its blood is to be splashed against the sides of the altar.

3All its fat shall be offered: the fat tail and the fat that covers the internal organs,

4both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.

5The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering presented to the Lord. It is a guilt offering.

6Any male in a priest’s family may eat it, but it must be eaten in the sanctuary area; it is most holy.

7“ ‘The same law applies to both the sin offering and the guilt offering: They belong to the priest who makes atonement with them.

8The priest who offers a burnt offering for anyone may keep its hide for himself.

9Every grain offering baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who offers it,

10and every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.

11“ ‘These are the regulations for the fellowship offering anyone may present to the Lord:

12“ ‘If they offer it as an expression of thankfulness, then along with this thank offering they are to offer thick loaves made without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, thin loaves made without yeast and brushed with oil, and thick loaves of the finest flour well-kneaded and with oil mixed in.

13Along with their fellowship offering of thanksgiving they are to present an offering with thick loaves of bread made with yeast.

14They are to bring one of each kind as an offering, a contribution to the Lord; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the fellowship offering against the altar.

15The meat of their fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered; they must leave none of it till morning.

16“ ‘If, however, their offering is the result of a vow or is a freewill offering, the sacrifice shall be eaten on the day they offer it, but anything left over may be eaten on the next day.

17Any meat of the sacrifice left over till the third day must be burned up.

18If any meat of the fellowship offering is eaten on the third day, the one who offered it will not be accepted. It will not be reckoned to their credit, for it has become impure; the person who eats any of it will be held responsible.

19“ ‘Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up. As for other meat, anyone ceremonially clean may eat it.

20But if anyone who is unclean eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people.

21Anyone who touches something unclean—whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground—and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord must be cut off from their people.’ ”

22The Lord said to Moses,

23“Say to the Israelites: ‘Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats.

24The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.

25Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering may be presented to the Lord must be cut off from their people.

26And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.

27Anyone who eats blood must be cut off from their people.’ ”